Posted on March 21, 2017 by Shelly Nortz in The Journal News The Journal News, By Shelly Nortz Mother Nature has uncanny timing and a powerful way of getting her message across. The blizzard dubbed Stella intervened as our leaders in Albany attempted to discuss critical funding that would help thousands of New Yorkers escape chronic homelessness. It was the second time in less than a month that winter weather got in the way. In February, as members of the Cuomo administration were scheduled to testify before state legislators about the impact of the governor’s budget proposal on the homelessness crisis gripping our state, a major winter storm dropped nearly a foot of snow along the Albany to New York City corridor. Lawmakers were forced to postpone the hearing.